- Please list your education beyond your St. Olaf degree?
MBA – University
of St. Thomas (1978)
Certified Financial Planner – College for Financial Planning
(1983)
- What is your current occupation?
Financial
Planner – President of my own wealth management
services organization called Glacier Bay Financial Group LLC
- What
was your major and how has that played out into your life today?
B.A. – Economics – I
use what I learned in Economics every day in my life’s
journey as a financial planner. But
even more importantly the courses I took in Psychology helped
prepare me for working with clients in better understanding the
behavior behind their financial decision-making.
- Tell
us your favorite Ole memory.
Watching Ole football games on crisp, fall afternoons with
blue sky and the fall colors all ablaze and playing baseball
for Coach Jim Dimick who has had more influence on my life,
and many others, then he could ever imagine.
- What is
your favorite alumni event?
I don’t have a favorite. I
simply enjoy reconnecting with Oles on a daily basis.
- What
do you consider your greatest achievement that St. Olaf has
played a part in?
The great relationships that were
borne out of my St. Olaf experience that have continued to
this day. Great people…creative,
smart, resourceful, honest…people with high integrity
and moral fiber and who have a commitment to serve their community
in many different ways.
- Why do you support St. Olaf College?
My St. Olaf experience and the relationships developed from
that experience have had a dramatic positive impact on who I
am today and I want to ensure that others have the opportunity
to have similar life impacting experiences.
- What do you
hope to accomplish on the Alumni Board?
To be able to have a positive impact on furthering the mission
of the college.
- Any advice you have for current students?
Enjoy your time at St. Olaf because it will be over before
you realize it.
- Is there any personal information
you would like to add?
St. Olaf has been a part of
my life for a very long time. My
parents (Robert ’41 and Lorraine ’42) met while at
St. Olaf. My twin brother (Brady ’69) attended St.
Olaf as well as our daughter (Stacy ’97). And my wife
Diana currently works in the Alumni and Parent Relations Office
and is more an Ole than most Oles.
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